Panel on Quality of Experience: Tools, Targets and Trends
Panel Chair
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira is currently with the Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico and with Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. He is an Area Editor of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, a member of the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing Magazine, and is or has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees on Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing, and Multimedia Signal Processing, and of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committees on Visual Signal Processing and Communications, and Multimedia Systems and Applications. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2005 and an IEEE Fellow in 2008. He has been a member of the Scientific and Program Committees of many international conferences and has contributed more than 200 papers. He has been participating in the work of ISO/MPEG for many years, notably as the head of the Portuguese delegation, Chairman of the MPEG Requirements Group, and chairing many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. His areas of interest are video analysis, processing, coding and description, quality assessment and interactive multimedia services.
Panelists
Al Bovik
Al Bovik holds the Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Neuroscience. He is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is well known for his work on image and video quality assessment, in particular as co-developer of the Structural Similarity (SSIM) and the Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) indices for image quality assessment, other algorithms for no-reference quality assessment of JPEG and JPEG2000 images, and the LIVE Image and Video Quality Databases, which has become a de facto standard. He has published over 500 technical articles in these areas and holds two U.S. patents. He is also the author or co-author of The Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Modern Image Quality Assessment and two upcoming books, The Essential Guide to Image Processing and The Essential Guide to Video Processing. Dr. Bovik has received a number of major awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including: the Education Award (2008); the Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Distinguished Lecturer Award (2000); and the Meritorious Service Award (1998).
Gary Sullivan
Gary J. Sullivan received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering, Louisville, KY, in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. and Engineer degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991. He is the Rapporteur/Chairman of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), a Rapporteur/Co-Chairman of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and a Rapporteur/Co-Chairman of the Joint Video Team (JVT), which is a joint project between the VCEG and MPEG organizations. He is also the ITU-T video and image coding liaison representative to MPEG and JPEG/JBIG. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, he was the Manager of Communications Core Research at PictureTel Corporation (now Polycom), the world leader in videoconferencing communication at the time. He was previously a Howard Hughes Fellow and Member of the Technical Staff in the Advanced Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Corporation and was a Terrain-Following Radar (TFR) System Software Engineer for Texas Instruments. He holds the position of Video Architect in the Core Media Processing Team of the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. At Microsoft he designed and remains lead engineer for the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) API/DDI video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system. His research interests and areas of publication include image and video compression, rate-distortion optimization, motion estimation and compensation, scalar and vector quantization, and scalable and error/packet-loss resilient video coding. Dr. Sullivan received the Technical Achievement award of the International Committee on Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2005 for his work on H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and other video standardization topics.
Sebastian Moeller
Sebastian Möller was born in 1968 and studied electrical engineering at the universities of Bochum (Germany), Orléans (France) and Bologna (Italy). He received a Doctor-of-Engineering degree in 1999 for his work on the assessment and prediction of speech quality in telecommunications, and the Habilitation (venia legendi) with a book on the quality of telephone-based spoken dialogue systems in 2004, both at Ruhr-University Bochum. From 1994 to 2005, he held the position of a scientific researcher and "Hochschuldozent" at Ruhr-University Bochum. In 2005, he joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin University of Technology, and in 2007, he was appointed Professor for Quality and Usability at the same university. His primary interests are in the areas of speech signal processing, speech technology, communication acoustics, as well as in quality and usability evaluation. Since 1997, he has taken part in the standardization activities of ITU-T Study Group 12, where he is currently Co-Rapporteur of question Q.8/12.
Stefan Winkler
Stefan Winkler holds an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, and a Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Dr. Winkler is currently Principal Technologist at Symmetricom. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist of Genista, which he co-founded in 2001. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently co-chair of the QoE Metrics Activity Group of the Video Services Forum (VSF). He has also been an active contributor to the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since it was founded in 1997. Dr. Winkler has published more than 50 papers and is the author of the book "Digital Video Quality".